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Post-processor - POSTFEKO
The major new features that have been implemented in POSTFEKO, in addition to the features
listed earlier, are highlighted in the following list.
1. More than 300 smaller extensions and bug fixes.
2. Curvilinear and HOBF mesh support have been added to POSTFEKO.
• Curvilinear surface meshes are visualised in the 3D view.
• Currents and charges can be displayed on flat or curvilinear meshes when using higher
order basis functions.
3. The application automation and Lua scripting interface in POSTFEKO has been extended. In
addition to the items listed under the prominent features, the following improvements are
also available.
• Dataset improvements: The structure used for containing math results has been improved for performance and memory overhead. Datasets are now also accessible from
the application automation framework. This change could cause scripts to stop working
due to changes in the the syntax, but they can be corrected with minor changes.
• POSTFEKO can be launched in a non-interactive mode to execute an application automation script using --non-interactive as a command line argument. In this
mode no dialogs are displayed and default options are selected for any dialogs that
would have required a user to select an option. If the script execution fails, the application exits with an error code.
• Two new matrix manipulation objects have been developed that allow complex and
double (real) matrix operations from the scripting environment.
• Extended automation API for the renaming of window tabs.
• Parameters can be sent to scripts when launching POSTFEKO from a command line.
• A batch modify function for Lua objects has been implemented.
• A number of commonly used Lua scripting modules have been included by default with
the FEKO installation. These include LuaFileSystem, LuaXml, winapi and the tools
provided by PenLight. This is in addition to the luacom module that was also shipped
with earlier version for COM manipulation of application on Windows.
• Further improvements and extensions have been made to the documentation examples
making it easier to develop scripts.
4. When displaying port impedances in Smith charts or when calculating insertion losses, the
reference impedance specified for the port will be used instead of defaulting to 50 Ω. It is
still possible to use an alternative reference impedance.
5. Standing wave ratio and mismatch loss quantities are now available for waveguide and
modal excitations.